BEFORE CREATING USB BOOTABLE DISK 2 TYPES OF TARGET SYSTEM
UEFI (UNIFIED EXTENSIBLE FIRMWARE
INTERFACE)
WHAT IS RUFUS SOFTWARE USED FOR?
is a specification that defines a software
RUFUS (RELIABLE USB FORMATTING UTILITY
interface between an operating system and
WITH SOURCE)
platform firmware. As a modern replacement for
is a utility that helps format and create bootable the legacy BIOS system, UEFI supports hard
USB flash drives. It can be especially useful for drives larger than 2TB. Besides, it offers more
cases where: you need to create USB installation new features, such as Secure Boot, Network
media from bootable ISOs, you need to work on booting, and so on.
a system that doesn't have an OS installed.
CSM (COMPATIBILITY SUPPORT MODULE)
PARTITION SCHEME
is only a component of the UEFI firmware. It
There are two main types of partition tables: offers backward compatibility for modern
MBR and GPT. computers. To be specific, you can boot in legacy
BIOS mode on a modern UEFI-based system by
using CSM.
MBR (MASTER BOOT RECORD)
is a bit of reserved space at the beginning of the By default, CSM is disabled on the computer with
drive that contains the information about how a newer Windows OS. However, if you want to
the partitions are organized. The MBR also install an older OS or reduce the bitness (from
contains code to launch the operating system, 64-bit to 32-bit) of your system, you should
and it's sometimes called the Boot Loader. enable this feature.
GPT (GUID PARTITION TABLE) DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NTFS AND FAT32
is a newer standard that's slowly replacing MBR. MEMORY CARD FILE SYSTEMS
Most commercially available memory cards use
the FAT32 file system by default.
GUID (GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER)
FAT32 (FILE ALLOCATION TABLE) file system
is a 128-bit text string that represents an cannot store individual files larger than 4 GB,
identification (ID). Organizations generate GUIDs while the NTFS file system can.
when a unique reference number is needed to
identify information on a computer or network. NTFS (NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM) has
A GUID can be used to ID hardware, software, higher disk utilization and can manage disk space
accounts, documents and other items. more effectively.
The read and write speeds of NTFS are also faster
than that of FAT32.
Unlike an MBR partition table, GPT stores the
data about how all the partitions are organized The FAT32 file system is suitable for smaller
and how to boot the OS throughout the drive. capacity flash memory devices (such as memory
That way if one partition is erased or corrupted, cards, USB drives, and other storage devices),
it's still possible to boot and recover some of the while the NTFS file system is suitable for large
data. capacity disks.
UEFI (UNIFIED EXTENSIBLE FIRMWARE
INTERFACE)
WHAT IS RUFUS SOFTWARE USED FOR?
is a specification that defines a software
RUFUS (RELIABLE USB FORMATTING UTILITY
interface between an operating system and
WITH SOURCE)
platform firmware. As a modern replacement for
is a utility that helps format and create bootable the legacy BIOS system, UEFI supports hard
USB flash drives. It can be especially useful for drives larger than 2TB. Besides, it offers more
cases where: you need to create USB installation new features, such as Secure Boot, Network
media from bootable ISOs, you need to work on booting, and so on.
a system that doesn't have an OS installed.
CSM (COMPATIBILITY SUPPORT MODULE)
PARTITION SCHEME
is only a component of the UEFI firmware. It
There are two main types of partition tables: offers backward compatibility for modern
MBR and GPT. computers. To be specific, you can boot in legacy
BIOS mode on a modern UEFI-based system by
using CSM.
MBR (MASTER BOOT RECORD)
is a bit of reserved space at the beginning of the By default, CSM is disabled on the computer with
drive that contains the information about how a newer Windows OS. However, if you want to
the partitions are organized. The MBR also install an older OS or reduce the bitness (from
contains code to launch the operating system, 64-bit to 32-bit) of your system, you should
and it's sometimes called the Boot Loader. enable this feature.
GPT (GUID PARTITION TABLE) DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NTFS AND FAT32
is a newer standard that's slowly replacing MBR. MEMORY CARD FILE SYSTEMS
Most commercially available memory cards use
the FAT32 file system by default.
GUID (GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER)
FAT32 (FILE ALLOCATION TABLE) file system
is a 128-bit text string that represents an cannot store individual files larger than 4 GB,
identification (ID). Organizations generate GUIDs while the NTFS file system can.
when a unique reference number is needed to
identify information on a computer or network. NTFS (NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM) has
A GUID can be used to ID hardware, software, higher disk utilization and can manage disk space
accounts, documents and other items. more effectively.
The read and write speeds of NTFS are also faster
than that of FAT32.
Unlike an MBR partition table, GPT stores the
data about how all the partitions are organized The FAT32 file system is suitable for smaller
and how to boot the OS throughout the drive. capacity flash memory devices (such as memory
That way if one partition is erased or corrupted, cards, USB drives, and other storage devices),
it's still possible to boot and recover some of the while the NTFS file system is suitable for large
data. capacity disks.
